because the dinosaurs didn't have a WiiFit!
ok i'll go back to my corner now.
If I manage my life using Notepad and text files, is Notepad my new OS?
Yes, if by 'Notepad' you mean 'Emacs'
Ha! Don't you try to outweird me. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal!
Clearly, people don't feel the price Microsoft asks for IE is reasonable. They should lower it a bit.
I'll agree to this. Granted the price is not expressed in $ paid by the customer, but rather in $ paid to the Web developer. And to Geek Squad to clean your machine after being pwned by a zero-day.
yeah, I know....WHOOSH!
If we were to vote on the next Heinlein book to make into a movie, I would vote for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Though they would probably have to severely shorten the first half of it (the lecture half) for the movie adaptation.
Not me. I'd vote for _The Puppet Masters_. That's pretty easy to make into a movie...lots of action & lots of nudity >:D
The real MySQL has learned the first lesson of not being seen: not to stand up.
Aside from the 35 hour week, wine for a euro a bottle, amazing food, and hot (albeit potentially hairy) women? The ski resorts? The Mediterranean resorts? The Maginot line? Knowing that steak should be rare and bloody...
Are you implying that the Maginot Line is one of the big sources of pride in being French?
Unfortunately, I have a Masters Degree in Drunken Calculus, so that feature won't help me
Yes. As long as you know not to mix drinking and deriving.
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$1,500/mo slips in to the noise; $50K makes itself seen.
Here we have Mr. RollingThunder from The Burrows. He is proposing a $50,000 price tag to bring every single system in to compliance. Mr. RollingThunder, would you stand up, please?
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This demonstrates the value of not being seen
I'm no constitutional scholar, but I suspect that inefficiency was meant to be applied to Congress, not to the Executive Branch (which DHS, CIA, NSA and other TLAs are part of). The inefficiency was meant to prevent bogus laws from making it on the books. (you can argue that the inefficiency fails at this, but that was its purpose), not to prevent gov't from enforcing the laws it does have.
Mr. Keene said jurors might think they were helping, not hurting, by digging deeper. âoeThere are people who feel they canâ(TM)t serve justice if they donâ(TM)t find the answers to certain questions,â he said.
I was just about to bring this up. The whole point of 12 Angry Men was a jury that did their own research (all alone in the deliberation room) and came up with the 'right' verdict. Which they would never have done based only on the 'evidence' presented at the trial. I'd sure like to see how that story would turn out if the jury had had internet access.
So there may be centuries of precedent preventing jurors from conducting their own research, but 12 Angry Men is 'precedent' for the contrary strategy.
Why not? Apple did it, and people adjusted pretty well.
Some did. Others didn't.
In the 90's, Photoshop was a Mac product...many people bought Macs to run Photoshop. When Apple switched to OSX, Adobe took what...three years to port Photoshop? Today it does run on OSX, but most users run it on Windows. Apple's switch to OSX cost them a big killer app.
Can you understand why MS doesn't want to go that route?
What you are describing sounds a lot like Java's SecurityManager class. It's the main reason Java is considered 'secure'...the SecurityManager lets Java applets (and other types of programs) run in a sandbox, request extra permissions, and provides APIs to enable users to grant said permissions. I know JS and Flash also have sandboxes, dunno much about their security management.
The problem MS would face is providing a sandbox that is secure, yet is compatibile with the current environment that internet-based programs (eg DirectX) expects. Which (I'm sure) is terribly complex.
Basically, I suspect MS could have 'secure' or 'compatible', but not both.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.